You Nakai, Assistant Professor, Kyoto City University of Arts You Nakai creates music(ians), dance(rs), haunted musical houses, nursery rhymes, and other forms of performances as a member of No Collective (nocollective.com) and Already Not Yet (alreadynotyet.org). He is Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo.
You Nakai's book is a remarkable achievement that illuminates the breadth and depth of David Tudor's life and work as a composer-performer. Based on extensive analytical research and interviews with Tudor's surviving creative associates, it charts his evolution from organist and virtuoso pianist to his innovative live-electronic music, ending with his final explorations of sound and space. Engagingly written and eminently readable, this extraordinary study offers fresh insights into Tudor's reclusive personal life and elusive creative complexities. -- Gordon Mumma, composer, Professor Emeritus, University of California